Re: [boost] [1.45] Beta next week?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.45] Beta next week?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-15 02:55:34

Sergey Voropaev wrote:
> Beman Dawes <bdawes <at> acm.org> writes:
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>> If anyone know of any showstoppers, please let us know what the
>> problem is.
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> I think boost::serialization library has very serious flaw. It is
> lack of backward compatibility for binary archive. I discovered this
> problem when I did upgrade from 1.34 to 1.43 and 1.44 versions of
> BOOST. 1.44 library can not work with old binary archive. The reason
> - format of binary header of archive has been changed.
> I think 1.45 version should be corrected for this problem and/or we
> should place some announcement about recommendation not to use the
> 1.44 version to work with binary archive.
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> See:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4660
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/208588

I"m aware of this, it's just that I haven't the the time to deal with
it right now.  I've had a lot of trouble with this and I'm warying
of trying to fix it without having the time to do it right.

Robert Ramey

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